David Weiss on the fine — and finer — things in life

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Big Noise from Small Toys

The time has come to put away childish things, and to join the adult world of kick-butt audio. Introducing the M-00 powered multimedia speaker system from NHT, already a favorite among high-end audio retentive types, but perfect for gamers demanding sonic realism and music freaks who want to hear every last frequency in that hi-res download they paid extra for.

NHT has long been a highly respected manufacturer of speakers and home theater rigs, and applies that know-how to this compact system: a pair of M-00’s, an S-20 subwoofer and, if you want to splurge a wee bit more, a “passive volume control” that ensures you don’t lose fidelity due to rinky-dink audio connectors. Now you’re ready to crank that thing to 12 and really annoy your housemates.

Mind you, this ain’t yo daddy’s Wollensak anymore, and will cost you more than the average heap o’ plastic on the shelves at Best Buy. But if it’s good enough for the finicky likes of Peter Frampton — who has been a M-00 Man for some time now — it will more than do the job for civilians who also cherish accurate sound reproduction in a compact system. In this iWorld we live in, small is beautiful until it comes to the power and grandeur of music: NHT delivers all that and a dose of glory to boot.

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Who is David Weiss?

A Detroit native, David Weiss fled Motown for Los Angeles in 1978 and began to write for Daily Variety and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, primarily as a music critic with a focus on jazz.

His own music career started soon thereafter, with the surrealistic funk band Was (Not Was), then various gigs as a composer and producer, working with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones among others.

In a parallel universe, Weiss has been filing golf and travel stories for T&L Golf, Golfweek and The New York Times and is a regular contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered" program, doing stories on music and all things cultural.